December 13, 2006 -
We are back in New Orleans, meeting with community leaders to get a "ground level" view on how the recovery is going in the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. These visits always remind me why it's so important that we build our own independent media, and why we can never let up in working for progressive change, from the ground up.
December 12, 2006 -
The US Department of Energy has a huge stockpile of weapons-grade uranium at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that they need to do something with. Somewhere along the way, a plan to extract medical radioisotopes got scrapped, and the disposal bill jumped from $128 million when the contract was awarded in 2003 to nearly $380 million now.
December 12, 2006 -
Here's an interesting article about the contrasts between two auto manufacturing towns:
December 11, 2006 -
Debate continues to rage as to what caused 18,000 votes for Florida House district 13 to not register in the 2006 mid-term elections -- one out of seven ballots cast, likely tipping the result of a race decided by fewer than 400 votes.
December 11, 2006 -
A report by West Virginia investigators into the cause of the blast that killed 12 miners at the Sago Mine in January was supposed to be released today, but that release has been delayed after victims' relatives expressed dissatisfaction with the reports findings, CNN reports:
December 11, 2006 -
The 16 percent of eligible voters who bothered to cast ballots in yesterday's congressional runoff election in the New Orleans area sent Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) back to Washington for a ninth term, handing the ethically challenged politician a decisive 57 percent of the vote in his race against attorney and state Rep.
December 11, 2006 -
The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette reports on a disturbing case involving two employees of Iranian descent at the National Institute for Occupational Safety Health, whose lives were destroyed two years ago in what critics say is a blatant case